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يسمعون حسيسها by أيمن العتوم
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsخلف الوادي انتشرت أشجار هرمة . إلا انها ظلت خضراء على طول عمرها الذي تجاوز مئات السنين . -
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حديث الجنود by أيمن العتوم
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsمفتاح الثورة كلمة، وتصنع الثورة كلمة: (العدو من أماكم والبحر من ورائكم)، وأول الرسالة كلمة:(اقرأ)، وأول الرحمة كلمة: (كوني برداً وسلاما)، واعظم العذاب كلمة: (اخسؤوا فيها ولا تكلمون)، وأشد الحسرة كلمة: (سلام عليكِ .. -
![Fall from Grace by Jill Barnett]()
Fall from Grace by Jill Barnett
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA classic Jill Barnett love and laughter novella set in the Highlands of Scotland, where the Clan McNish has been raided and left starving by their bitter rivals, the McNabs. As granddaughter to the clan chieftain, Grace McNish decides it is her duty to capture and ransom a vile McNab... -
![The Four Books by Yan Lianke]()
The Four Books by Yan Lianke
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the Franz Kafka Prize–winning author of Lenin’s Kiss, a “stupendous and unforgettable” novel of Mao’s China (The Times, London). In the ninety-ninth district of a re-education compound, freethinking artists and academics are detained to strengthen their loyalty to Communist ideologies...Categorized as:
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![A Matter of Time by Alex Capus]()
A Matter of Time by Alex Capus
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Beautifully rendered in John Brownjohn's translation . . . [a] magnificent novel."—Giles Foden, author of The Last King of Scotland"A war-torn farce worth waiting for."—The IndependentNovember 1913 and three German shipbuilders, led by master shipwright Anton Rüter, are ordered by Kaiser Wilhelm to dismantle a steam ship, send the parts to German East Africa, and reassemble it on Lake Tanganyika... -
![Forsaking All Others by Emilie Loring]()
Forsaking All Others by Emilie Loring
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA dazzling young star exits stage West. A hasty ceremony, a quick kiss and Jennifer Haydon and Dr. Bradley Maxwell were united for life. Jenny didn’t expect to live happily ever after with her new husband. After all, they didn’t love each other... -
![Signal & Noise by John Griesemer]()
Signal & Noise by John Griesemer
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn a dark, wet London morning in 1857, Chester Ludlow, an American engineer, arrives on the muddy banks of the Isle of Dogs to witness the launch of the largest steamship ever built, Isambard Kingdom Brunel's The Great Eastern. Ludlow, propelled by fierce ambition, is a key member of a small consortium whose ambition is to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable... -
![Kissed at Midnight by Samantha Holt]()
Kissed at Midnight by Samantha Holt
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAugust Avery, a renowned civil engineer, has found himself the sole custodian of his cousin’s six month old daughter and he needs assistance—fast. He understands how to build railways, to construct bridges and to save the railway tycoons thousands of pounds. He doesn’t understand, however, how to care for a child... -
![Semi-Tough by Dan Jenkins]()
Semi-Tough by Dan Jenkins
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMade into a hilarious and timeless film starring Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, and Jill Clayburgh, and recently named number seven on Sports Illustrated's Top 100 Sports Books of All Time, Semi-Tough is Dan Jenkins's masterpiece and considered by many to be the funniest sports book ever written... -
![The Ambitious Madame Bonaparte by Ruth Hull Chatlien]()
The Ambitious Madame Bonaparte by Ruth Hull Chatlien
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGold Medal Winner, Historical Fiction Personage, 2014 Readers’ Favorite AwardsFirst Place Winner, Turn of the 19th Century, 2014 Chaucer Awards for Historical FictionTell the emperor that Madame Bonaparte is ambitious and demands her rights as a member of the imperial family... -
![Scandalmonger by William Safire]()
Scandalmonger by William Safire
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA presidential hopeful has taken a beautiful, vulnerable woman as his mistress, though both are married to others. His rival for the presidency of the United States has even more sensational secrets to guard about his own past. An ambitious journalist unearths the stories of the private lives of both, and he hefts in his hand what he calls "the hammer of truth... -
![تحت شمس الضحى by Ibrahim Nasrallah, إبراهيم نصر الله]()
تحت شمس الضحى by Ibrahim Nasrallah, إبراهيم نصر الله
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsالناشر:يشتغل إبراهيم نصر الله على أنموذجة بإخلاص وإيمان بأصالة وقيمة وضرورة ما ينتج. عمله مصيري في بعث فلسطين -التاريخ والجغرافيا والروح والأمل- في إبداعه لغة ومكاناً وزماناً وتشكيلاً، وهوي ستغرق عميقاً في عالم الكتابة ويسعى دوماً إلى تجديد أدواته باتجاه أسلوبية تعبيرية أرقى في الشعر والسدر الورائي، ويستعيد ثقافته السينمائية ليحظى بهذا التلاقي الخلاق بين فن الكتابة وفن السينما... -
![Amenable Women by Mavis Cheek]()
Amenable Women by Mavis Cheek
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA book about a Tudor Queen and a contemporary heroine - linked through their affinity over 500 years. Flora Chapman is in her fifties when her dashing and infuriating husband, Edward, dies in a bizarre ballooning accident. Ever pragmatic, Flora seizes upon her new freedom and decides to finish Edward’s history of Hurcott Ducis, the village where they’ve spent their married life... -
![Running by Jean Echenoz, Linda Coverdale]()
Running by Jean Echenoz, Linda Coverdale
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFollowing his brilliant portrait of Maurice Ravel, Jean Echenoz turns to the life of one of the greatest runners of the twentieth century, and once again demonstrates his astonishing abilities as a prose stylist... -
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![President Taft Is Stuck in the Bath by Mac Barnett, Chris Van Dusen]()
President Taft Is Stuck in the Bath by Mac Barnett, Chris Van Dusen
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGeorge Washington crossed the Delaware in the dead of night. Abraham Lincoln saved the Union. William Howard Taft got stuck in a bathtub and then got unstuck. This is his story... -
![From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant by Alex Gilvarry]()
From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant by Alex Gilvarry
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFashionistas and g-men clash in a mastermindful debutBoyet Hernandez is a small man with a big American dream when he arrives in New York in 2002, fresh out of fashion school in the Philippines... -
![Screwball by Simon Rich, Beck Bennett]()
Screwball by Simon Rich, Beck Bennett
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSNL’s Beck Bennett performs Screwball, a wildly funny and wistful take on Babe Ruth’s little-known stint in the minor leagues, from one of America’s funniest writers, Simon Rich. Before he was “Babe” or “The Sultan of Swat” or “The Great Bambino”, George Herman Ruth was just another teenage misfit at St. Mary’s School for Boys... -
![Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments by Joe Posnanski]()
Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments by Joe Posnanski
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA masterful ode to the a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to make you fall in love with the sport all over again. Posnanski writes of major moments that created legends, and of forgotten moments almost lost to time... -
![The Greatest Game Ever Played by Mark Frost]()
The Greatest Game Ever Played by Mark Frost
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOuimet and Vardon were two men from different generations and vastly different corners of the world whose lives, unbeknownst to them at the time, bore remarkable similarities, setting them on parallel paths that led with a kind of fated inevitability to their epic battle at Brookline years in the future... -
![Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi]()
Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn urgent, groundbreaking and visually stunning new collection of graphic story-telling about the present Iranian revolution, using comics to show what would be censored in photos and film in Iran... -
![The Children by David Halberstam]()
The Children by David Halberstam
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Children is Halberstam's moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen thru the story of the young people--the Children--who met in the 60s & went on to lead the revolution... -
![Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis by Sam Anderson]()
Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis by Sam Anderson
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAward-winning journalist Sam Anderson’s long-awaited debut is a brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma City--a great American story of civics, basketball, and destiny.Oklahoma City was born from chaos. It was founded in a bizarre but momentous "Land Run" in 1889, when thousands of people lined up along the borders of Oklahoma Territory and rushed in at noon to stake their claims... -
![The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors by Charles Krauthammer]()
The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors by Charles Krauthammer
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCreated and compiled by Charles Krauthammer before his death, The Point of It All is a powerful collection of the influential columnist's most important works. Spanning the personal, the political and the philosophical, it includes never-before-published speeches and a major new essay about the effect of today's populist movements on the future of global democracy... -
![Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism by Bhu Srinivasan]()
Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism by Bhu Srinivasan
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the days of the Mayflower and the Virginia Company, America has been a place for people to dream, invent, build, tinker, and bet the farm in pursuit of a better life... -
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![Economix: How and Why Our Economy Works (and Doesn't Work), in Words and Pictures by Michael Goodwin]()
Economix: How and Why Our Economy Works (and Doesn't Work), in Words and Pictures by Michael Goodwin
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsStimulus plans: good or bad? Free markets: How free are they? Jobs: Can we afford them? Occupy Wall Street . . . worldwideEverybody's talking about the economy, but how can we, the people, understand what Wall Street or Washington knows--or say they know? Read "Economix... -
![And the Pursuit of Happiness by Maira Kalman]()
And the Pursuit of Happiness by Maira Kalman
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsInspired by the 2008 elections, artist Maira Kalman set out across these great states with pen and paper in hand to explore facets of American democracy that many Americans only contemplate on the Fourth of July. From eavesdropping on town hall meetings to visiting veterans' families, Maira probed the inner workings of how we come together... -
![The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder by Peter Zeihan]()
The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder by Peter Zeihan
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe freshman book of New York Times Bestselling Author of The End of the World is Just the Mapping the Collapse of Globalization.An eye-opening assement of American power and deglobalization in the bestselling tradition of The World is Flat and The Next 100 Years .Near the end of the Second World War, the United States made a bold strategic gambit that rewired the international system... -
![The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough]()
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsPublished on the fortieth anniversary of its initial publication, this edition of the classic book contains a new Preface by David McCullough, “one of our most gifted living writers” (The Washington Post)... -
![Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases by Paul A. Offit]()
Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases by Paul A. Offit
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMaurice Hilleman's mother died a day after he was born and his twin sister stillborn. As an adult, he said that he felt he had escaped an appointment with death. He made it his life's work to see that others could do the same... -
![Dan Rather: Stories of a Lifetime by Dan Rather]()
Dan Rather: Stories of a Lifetime by Dan Rather
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTales from the front lines of 60 years of television.Emmy Award winner and former CBS News anchor Dan Rather brings his unforgettable staged performance, Stories of a Lifetime, to the Minetta Lane Theatre, where it will be recorded live for Audible Theater...
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